Covers

The Bobby Fuller Four classic (1966) revised and updated by The Clash in 1977.

Jake Holmes' played Dazed and Confused opening for The Yardbirds in 1967, which is where Jimmy Page heard it and put it on the Led Zeppelin debut album in 1969.

Tom Clarence Ashley and Gwen Foster recorded House of the Rising Sun in 1933, you're probably more familiar with this version from 1964:

What are your favorite covers?

What do you know?

Only 1 in 1000 Americans can name the five freedoms guaranteed by the first amendment; Speech, Press, Religion, Assembly, and Petition...But 22% of us can name all five of the Simpsons; Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie.

Take the Perils of Perception Quiz

I scored 8/9... I have to admit I got the percentage of Americans over 65 wrong.

If you want to have some real fun... take the other countries quizes.

I also scored 8/9 on Canada's test... I got the percentage of immigrants wrong. I scored 9/9 on the South Korea test (I did live there for a while). I scored 8/9 on the British test, again I got the percentage of immigrants wrong and while I lived there I wasn't in a big city and underestimated the immigrant population.

Germany 4/9, France 6/9, Italy 9/9, Australia 8/9, Spain 9/9, Belgium 8/9, Sweden 8/9, Japan 8/9, Hungary 7/9, Poland 7/9


After America and Canada I took the tests randomly, not in the order listed above and learned a bit from the test... I took Germany third and Hungary and Poland last.  I noticed I tended to under or over estimate immigrant populations, undoubtedly influenced by the news cycle.  

How did you do?